James Sturm

James Sturm
Sturm at Stumptown Comics Fest 2010
Born	1965 (age 51–52) New York City, New York
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Cartoonist, Writer, Artist, Editor, Publisher
Notable works	The Golem's Mighty Swing The Revival Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules
Awards	Eisner Award, 2004 Xeric Award, 1996

James Sturm (born 1965, in New York City) is an American cartoonist and co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Sturm is also the founder of the National Association of Comics Art Educators (NACAE), an organization committed to helping facilitate the teaching of comics in higher education.

Sturm grew up in Rockland County, New York, and later attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1988, one year after graduating, he self-published Down and Out Dawg, a book collecting his college newspaper strips, and Commix, an anthology that featured some of the first works of Chris Ware and Scott Dikkers. In 1990, Sturm was hired as a production assistant on Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine, and subsequently was published in the second and fourth issues of the Drawn & Quarterly anthology magazine.

In 1991, Sturm received a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He then moved to Seattle, Washington, and co-founded the alternative newsweekly, The Stranger. Meanwhile, Fantagraphics published his first comic book The Cereal Killings #1. During the next five years Sturm juggled jobs as art director of The Stranger, publisher of his own Bear Bones Press, and work on his own comics, like The Revival, published in 1996. In 1997, Sturm became a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design, in Savannah, Georgia.